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Stuart London and the idea of a royal capital city
Author(s) -
Robertson J
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/1477-4658.00355
Subject(s) - capital (architecture) , history , capital city , colonialism , economic history , political science , ancient history , geography , economic geography , archaeology
Charles I and James I developed ambitious plans for London to serve as the ‘capital city’. These schemes clashed with Londoners' understandings of their city. Royal proposals to reshape Dublin, York, and Edinburgh managed to do more, but the wider expectations for London are shown in the echoes of London in the new colonial capitals established across the Atlantic in the 1620s and 1630s. With the Civil Wars, royal views of London changed and were not restored at the Restoration.